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Tennessee's legislature is again making a bold stride backward. Their steady stream of legislation moving backwards certainly seems to b...

The Tea Party Republicans in Washington prevented new hiring in the IRS -- even though by then end of 2010, some $330 billion in taxes had n...

Morristown legislators Rep. Don Miller and Sen. Steve Southerland had their plans for re-naming the TN Highway Patrol as the state's Pol...

I've become addicted to Science Friday broadcasts on NPR and yesterday, the show brought together filmmaker Herzog and writer McCarthy t...

The current crop of witless, superstitious legislators vote to keep Science out of Science classes in public school, thanks to Knoxville Rep...

The dreary theatrical spectacle of a Tea party Congress seeking to lay blame for our economic peril on government spending which the actors ...

I can verify the fact that eating food is an addiction . I started on food shortly after I was born and I've continued to eat daily, oft...

A June 24, 2006 anti-immigrant and very emotional rally held in Hamblen County on the lawn of the courthouse drew a massive police presence ...

Despite efforts to prevent elected officials who leave elected office from becoming "Instant Lobbyists", the lobbyists now simply ...

I may have the headline backwards - I think maybe I am killing my computer.... no wait, it's more like my computer has lost some toes in...

The intended consequences of Republicans in Washington - and in state legislatures - who campaigned on "slashing spending" were ob...

I've not had a movie post in a few weeks as the state and federal legislative sessions have just brought out so much deeply ridiculous a...

Vivid fears of radioactive pollution in Japan have prompted much-needed attention here in the U.S. on the storage and usage of nuclear mater...

As both a soldier currently in Kuwait, a Morristown firefighter and a Tennessee citizen - SFC Rob Croxdale is reaching out to the Tennessee ...

Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn led Congress last week to strip the constitutional right of free speech from one single news organi...

Today hearings are scheduled on a bill to force teachers and curriculum creators in Tennessee to teach superstitions in science classes. Kno...

UPDATE : State Senator Randy McNally of Oak Ridge wants the students who protested to be expelled from college. More contempt for free spee...

"I’m focused like a laser beam on job creation and education." -- Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey "But providing someone a small tax inc...

( source ) The massive sorrows and terrors in the wake of the tsunami which hit Japan are too many to count. I have numerous friends who hav...